…The House of Representatives passed a bill last week that would strengthen the rights of employees to form unions…

Not quite. The EFCA would do just the opposite by eliminating workers’ guaranteed right to a private ballot election.

…In 2005, according to the most recent annual report of the National Labor Relations Board, 31,358 employees were receiving back pay after being discriminated against for their union-related activities. In research for a bipartisan Congressional commission in 2000, Kate Bronfenbrenner, a labor relations professor at Cornell University, reported that 25 percent of employers illegally fired at least one employee during organizing campaigns…